Livejournal was the most fun social network I ever used. The focus on moderately long texts rather than tweets/photos/videos, the one-way friending system where you could add anyone to your reading list, and the strict chronological ordering of the reading list were a winning combination. I wonder what's the best such network existing today?
An Update on Bradfitz: Leaving Google
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#62"Rewrote memcached (which I wrote pre-Google) in Google C++" What is diff in 'Google C++' and 'C++'?
It follows Google's style guide:
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#64> 5.5 hours of unused massage credits
That just seems like poor planning. If he knew he was leaving, he should have scheduled a one hour session each week for the last five. :)
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#65Congrats to you @bradfitz , and thank you for your numerous and massive contributions!
If i may be so bold as to suggest areas where you might want to peek at for your future attention...
* Maybe, work on the Dendrite effort under the matrix.org project; we need more and more federated communications platforms. See https://matrix.org/docs/projects/server/dendrite/
* Work on Go lang. implementations (or for that matter any other language/platform implementations) of fediverse servers, clients, platforms, etc...because we need more and more federated options for social networks. (Ok, maybe "need" is too string a term here.) There are existing options (mastodon, pleroma, etc.), but if I've learned anything, its that, diversity is essential.
* Work on LineageOS , or any other similar, viable alternatives to android or ios ...because - sorry, no offense - we need more and more options than simply google and apple for mobile phones/devices (and with liberty, freedom of choice, and privacy in mind).
I hope i wasn't being too presumptuous, but figured I'd at least it a shot at giving you ideas. Finally, I wish you the best of luck with your new endeavors!!!
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#66Earlier quoted context omitted.
It's interesting how fleeting software fame is. Perhaps that's just a special case of how fleeting fame is. Folks who came of age in the early 2000s certainly remember him - he founded LiveJournal; wrote memcached, MogileFS, Gearman, and a bunch of other prominent software packages; authored the first version of the OpenID spec (which eventually became OAuth, which you see all over the web); and was one of the early…
That's true; some of those folks just left the software industry, though, I think, or are at or approaching retirement age. Tangentially, it's still interesting -- and faintly depressing -- to me how much I think LiveJournal got right about social media that its bigger successors, well, don't, specifically related to privacy. LJ users had comparatively immense control over who could read and reply to posts. This isn'…
When Google+ was under development in 2011, I remarked to my team "So, our differentiator from Facebook is...basically everything that LiveJournal had in 2002?"
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#67> 5.5 hours of unused massage credits That just seems like poor planning. If he knew he was leaving, he should have scheduled a one hour session each week for the last five. :)
Indeed. I just forgot about them.
Also, turns out you can only have one outstanding reservation at a time (so I can't have one all-day massage on my last day) and can't gift them to other employees.
Oh well.
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#68Be honest, you are going back to Perl, right? Perl6 will be so amazing when you get involved again. See you at the PDX Perl meetups very soon?
You mean Raku, right? :)
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#69> met Googler wife
Makes me happy to see this still happening despite the current climate.